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true fruit

NOUN
simple fruit
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Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Grenville Kleiser

They open as nuts do, and then you will find a kernel inside which is the true fruit.’

From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

The outer succulent part is the swollen receptacle, the horny core being the true fruit developed from the usually five carpels and enclosing the seeds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Its true fruit takes time to flower and swell and come to ripeness and sweetness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

The true fruit is round, or oval, or elongated, sometimes pear-shaped, and with flattened sides, due to mutual lateral pressure.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield




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